
Move your cursor away from the corner to reset things if this happens. In Safari, for example, the bookmarks menu will pop out and obscure your options. Now, you can choose to Exit full screen or select the Green button once again.īe careful not to whip your cursor too far over to the left side of your screen, as this can sometimes bring up additional menus that will block your window buttons. Even if you can’t see the window control buttons, they should appear once your cursor lingers there. To get the exit option, hover your cursor in the upper-left corner of your display. That makes your Mac screen cleaner, but it’s also not immediately apparent how you can minimize the window once you are down. Step 2: One issue with full-screen mode is that those handy window buttons vanish. For now, let’s assume you have popped into full screen.

You can use this menu to take more specific options, which we’ll discuss below. Hover over these buttons, and you’ll see a menu appear that spells out your options, including a choice to Enter full screen (as well as move the window to another Apple device, etc.).

You may select it without meaning to if you are trying to downsize the window to your Dock, etc. The furthest-right, the green button with tiny arrows pointing outward, is the full-screen option. Open just about any app in MacOS, and you’ll see three round buttons in the upper-left corner. Step 1: First, let’s take a look at how you go full screen.
